Danny wrote, in part ..
>    How much, if any, control does an owner have over digests? Particularly,
> can an owner send one out on command. A member said he got a truncated digest
>and asked me to send it again. I didn't know if I could and if so how.
 
   In my experience, truncated mail including digests is a fairly common
   occurrence on a few systems.  It is probably a data dependent error.
   So, simply sending the digest again would result in your subscriber
   seeing another truncated digest.
 
   If you archive postings, take a look at the postings from the digest
   in question.  I suspect you'll find a line with only a period in in
   column 1 *or* a line 81 columns wide with a period in column 81.  In
   either case your subscribers' mail system (or a system close by) is
   incorrectly seeing the period by itself as an "end of file" indicator
   ...  ignoring the rest of the digest/mail.
 
   Another symptom of this problem is people occasionally getting
   multiple copies of a mail file.  This appears in some cases to be
   caused by the same problem (period alone on a line).  When the
   receiving SMTP stops accepting data, the sending SMTP sees this,
   thinks that a transmission problem occurred and schedules the mail for
   later retransmission.
 
Hope this helps,
 
Wayne Smith
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